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Claire Danes gave birth in late December but the new mom was back to looking red carpet-stunning (and svelte!) at the Golden Globes on Sunday.

The Homeland star, who took home a Best Actress award for her work on the show, talked about life after their new addition (she and husband Hugh Dancy welcomed a baby boy, Cyrus Michael Christopher Dancy) and her hopes for her character’s future:

On her first Golden Globes experience 15 years ago. “I was so green at that point, I honestly didn’t quite know what the Golden Globes were. And I remember seeing, when we first arrived on the red carpet, Quentin Tarantino talking to David Hasselhoff. And I thought, what is this? What is going on here? And just when I won now, the first person I ran into backstage was Quentin Tarantino and I got to tell him that story.”

On motherhood. “It’s so new that I am not even quite sure I know how it’s changed me yet. And I am very strapped into this dress. This is Versace and they are really masters of illusion. I literally can’t go to the bathroom unless I take the entire dress off. So yes, there is some serious Spanx going on here. But I was on my feet a lot during the pregnancy. I was working hard so I didn’t have an opportunity to gain much weight while I was pregnant. But yeah, no, it’s been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom. And again, I don’t know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.”

On similarities between Claire Danes and Carrie Matheson [the bipolar CIA operative she plays on Homeland]. “Not a whole lot, to be honest. I mean, I guess a kind of focus or intensity. Hers is at a much higher volume, thank goodness, than my own.”

On her wish for Carrie’s future. “Well, I think it would be interesting to see her become a mom. I’m not just saying that because I am one, but maybe I am. I am very myopic right now. Now I want all of my friends to become moms. I am really bossy about it. So I think I just want Carrie to become a mom because I can’t imagine any other reality now and I want everybody to join in on the fun.That would be interesting because it’s so antithetical for who she is. But who knows? The writers are much better at this than I am.”

On balancing work and parenting. “Well, I have been very, very lucky that I have had a night nurse, which is rad. And so I get some sleep. But I just think, like, okay, it’s another 4:00 a.m. call, which I have a lot of working in film and television. So I am sort of used to being sleep-deprived. But this is taking it to another level and there isn’t a weekend off. There’s no break. But it’s delicious and the best thing ever. It’s very motivating and his smell is just scrumptiousness.”

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